Niger’s new military government rebuffs latest talks offer by West-backed African Union and ECOWAS blocs after the expiration of their initial military action threat against the nation as US military vows to keep its forces there amid fear of a potential intervention.
A top US diplomat demands the undoing of Niger’s coup and the return to power of its West-backed president in a secret visit to the West African nation.
Despite official military withdrawals, American influence in the region has not dwindled, it has simply transformed. But if needed, Washington will revert back to its old techniques of power, writes Burak Elmali.